Scholar of digital cultures Orit Halpern and steirischer herbst senior curator David Riff discuss the potentials and pitfalls of today’s increasingly algorithmic reality and the demons that inhabit its apparatus. Both AI and smart cities are reactions to mounting crises and accumulating traumas, designed to handle an information overload and enforce a securitized reality. How can we prevent digital augmentation from acting as a malignant force, how can we better understand its (predigital) roots and predefined structures?

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https://2023.steirischerherbst.at/en/program/events/5340/demons-in-the-machine